Factors associated with small-scale agricultural machinery adoption in Bangladesh: census findings

There is strong advocacy for agricultural machinery appropriate for smallholder farmers in South Asia. Such ‘scale-appropriate’ machinery can increase returns to land and labour, although the still substantial capital investment required can preclude smallholder ownership. Increasing machinery deman...

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Autores: Mottaleb, K.A., Krupnik, T.J., Erenstein, O.
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Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:México
Institución:Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo
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Palabra clave:AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Farm Mechanization
Scale-Appropriate Machinery
Labor Scarcity
FARM EQUIPMENT
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
GENDER EQUITY
LABOUR SHORTAGE
SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION
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spelling Factors associated with small-scale agricultural machinery adoption in Bangladesh: census findingsMottaleb, K.A.Krupnik, T.J.Erenstein, O.AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGYFarm MechanizationScale-Appropriate MachineryLabor ScarcityFARM EQUIPMENTSUSTAINABLE AGRICULTUREGENDER EQUITYLABOUR SHORTAGESUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATIONThere is strong advocacy for agricultural machinery appropriate for smallholder farmers in South Asia. Such ‘scale-appropriate’ machinery can increase returns to land and labour, although the still substantial capital investment required can preclude smallholder ownership. Increasing machinery demand has resulted in relatively well-developed markets for rental services for tillage, irrigation, and post-harvest operations. Many smallholders thereby access agricultural machinery that may have otherwise been cost prohibitive to purchase through fee-for-service arrangements, though opportunity for expansion remains. To more effectively facilitate the development and investment in scale-appropriate machinery, there is a need to better understand the factors associated with agricultural machinery purchases and service provision. This paper first reviews Bangladesh’s historical policy environment that facilitated the development of agricultural machinery markets. It then uses recent Bangladesh census data from 814,058 farm households to identify variables associated with the adoption of the most common smallholder agricultural machinery – irrigation pumps, threshers, and power tillers (mainly driven by two-wheel tractors). Multinomial probit model results indicate that machinery ownership is positively associated with household assets, credit availability, electrification, and road density. These findings suggest that donors and policy makers should focus not only on short-term projects to boost machinery adoption. Rather, sustained emphasis on improving physical and civil infrastructure and services, as well as assuring credit availability, is also necessary to create an enabling environment in which the adoption of scale-appropriate farm machinery is most likely.155-168Elsevier2016-07-14T20:02:46Z2016-07-14T20:02:46Z2016info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlePDFapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10883/1708910.1016/j.jrurstud.2016.06.01246Journal of Rural Studiesreponame:Repositorio Institucional de Publicaciones Multimedia del CIMMYTinstname:Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigoinstacron:CIMMYTEnglishSOUTH ASIABangladeshNew YorkCIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purpose.Open Accessinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repository.cimmyt.org:10883/170892024-10-11T19:55:12Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Factors associated with small-scale agricultural machinery adoption in Bangladesh: census findings
title Factors associated with small-scale agricultural machinery adoption in Bangladesh: census findings
spellingShingle Factors associated with small-scale agricultural machinery adoption in Bangladesh: census findings
Mottaleb, K.A.
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Farm Mechanization
Scale-Appropriate Machinery
Labor Scarcity
FARM EQUIPMENT
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
GENDER EQUITY
LABOUR SHORTAGE
SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION
title_short Factors associated with small-scale agricultural machinery adoption in Bangladesh: census findings
title_full Factors associated with small-scale agricultural machinery adoption in Bangladesh: census findings
title_fullStr Factors associated with small-scale agricultural machinery adoption in Bangladesh: census findings
title_full_unstemmed Factors associated with small-scale agricultural machinery adoption in Bangladesh: census findings
title_sort Factors associated with small-scale agricultural machinery adoption in Bangladesh: census findings
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Mottaleb, K.A.
Krupnik, T.J.
Erenstein, O.
author Mottaleb, K.A.
author_facet Mottaleb, K.A.
Krupnik, T.J.
Erenstein, O.
author_role author
author2 Krupnik, T.J.
Erenstein, O.
author2_role author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Farm Mechanization
Scale-Appropriate Machinery
Labor Scarcity
FARM EQUIPMENT
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
GENDER EQUITY
LABOUR SHORTAGE
SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION
topic AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
Farm Mechanization
Scale-Appropriate Machinery
Labor Scarcity
FARM EQUIPMENT
SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
GENDER EQUITY
LABOUR SHORTAGE
SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION
description There is strong advocacy for agricultural machinery appropriate for smallholder farmers in South Asia. Such ‘scale-appropriate’ machinery can increase returns to land and labour, although the still substantial capital investment required can preclude smallholder ownership. Increasing machinery demand has resulted in relatively well-developed markets for rental services for tillage, irrigation, and post-harvest operations. Many smallholders thereby access agricultural machinery that may have otherwise been cost prohibitive to purchase through fee-for-service arrangements, though opportunity for expansion remains. To more effectively facilitate the development and investment in scale-appropriate machinery, there is a need to better understand the factors associated with agricultural machinery purchases and service provision. This paper first reviews Bangladesh’s historical policy environment that facilitated the development of agricultural machinery markets. It then uses recent Bangladesh census data from 814,058 farm households to identify variables associated with the adoption of the most common smallholder agricultural machinery – irrigation pumps, threshers, and power tillers (mainly driven by two-wheel tractors). Multinomial probit model results indicate that machinery ownership is positively associated with household assets, credit availability, electrification, and road density. These findings suggest that donors and policy makers should focus not only on short-term projects to boost machinery adoption. Rather, sustained emphasis on improving physical and civil infrastructure and services, as well as assuring credit availability, is also necessary to create an enabling environment in which the adoption of scale-appropriate farm machinery is most likely.
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